Browsing Programs, Centers, and Institutes by Type "WorkingPapers"
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-03-26)Besides risk aversion, decision makers are often assumed to be downside risk averse. In order to investigate tradeoffs that downside risk averse decision makers face, this paper proposes five stochastic orders, each ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-08-01)Simply put, the less Americans drive, the less gas they use. More driving, more gas. The negative effects of gasoline consumption are well-documented, ranging from local effects of automobile pollution on individuals' ...
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The Vicious Circle of Blackouts and Revenue Collection in Developing Economies: Evidence from Ghana (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-11-20)Access to reliable electricity is one of the largest barriers to economic growth in developing economies. Utilities suffer from the twin challenges of quasi-fiscal deficits and the need to implement rolling blackouts during ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-02-01)Identifying the relationship between wartime work and women’s lifetime outcomes is difficult due to scant work histories from the 1940s. This study identifies “Rosie the Riveters� using data from the 1973 Current ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-08-28)Popularized by the OECD’s PISA rankings of a few dozen countries/regions according to the test results of their 15 year olds, Asian students’ impressive academic achievements are now well known. Each of the top five ...